Improvement in protectors for boot and shoe straps



H. P.0SBUURNE.

Protectors for Boot and Shoe Straps No.166,547.

Patented Aug. 10,1875,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HOSEA P. OSBOURNE, OF MLWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN PROTECTORS FOR BOOT AND SHOE STRAPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 166,547, dated August 10, 1875; application filed December 31, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HOSEA P. OSBOURNE, of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee, in the State of Wisconsin, have invented certain Improvements in Protectors for Boot and Shoe Straps, of which the following is a specification:

My invention has for its object the protection of the webbing for boot and shoe straps from chafing out and breaking, and also for an ornament for boots and shoes; and is a leather shield on the webbing, to protect it from being raveled out.

Figure l is an outside View of the webbing, with the leather protector on it laying out straight; Fig. 2, an inside View of the webbing and protector laying out straight, and

' Fig. 3 a View of the strap folded up as it is when on the boot.

A is the fabric forming the boot or shoe strap; B, a piece of leather or any other suitable material, cut so that the fabric is put through it, forming a protector, so that in the center of the fabric the material of which the protector is made will be on the under side of the strap, and on the sides of it, so as to protect it from wear; 0, the stitching which secures the protector to the strap.

I claim as my invention The protector B, in combination with the fabric composing the strap of a boot or shoe, for the purpose specified.

Witnesses:

J. B. SMITH, E. J. SMITH. 

